Born in 1981 in Pertuis, in the south of France, Claire Tabouret is a visual artist based in Los Angeles. She trained at the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris and at the Cooper Union School of Art in New York, and has since emerged as one of the leading figures of contemporary French painting. Her powerful paintings (often portraits that explore human fragility) began to attract widespread recognition around 2010 and have since developed into a distinctive approach to figurative painting. Her works have been exhibited worldwide, she was named a Chevalier of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in 2022, and her paintings have entered the permanent collections of major institutions. In 2024, she was commissioned to create the stained-glass windows for six chapels along the south aisle of Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris, a landmark project whose preliminary sketches she unveiled at the Grand Palais in the exhibition « D’un seul souffle » in 2025.
